Day one: introducing the eggs

When storing the eggs you want to make sure you keep them with the point of the egg facing down and keep them at room temperature around 25 degrees C. they should be left to settle like this for about 12 hours before they are put into incubation.

When the eggs are put in the incubator they should be pointing down, it would also be useful to use something like cotton wool or kitchen roll to keep them from rolling around and getting damaged. if they are damaged there is a high possibility the egg wont develop.

For Chinese Painted quails it will take up to 12 days before the chicks start to pip and 16 days before the eggs to hatch. but this varies between the type of quail.